Wednesday Jul 11, 2007

As a die hard Newton user, it's not often you have an eventful week for your PDA except for this week. The World Wide Newton Conference was held in Japan (curse the timing, I'll be passing through Japan in Spetember) and there were actually major announcements, ie:

Hiroshi's wireless networking package has not only dropped the licensing cost, but been open sourced:

Friday Mar 03, 2006

I'd give it a try but my original hardware is still working (nice to know
there is a fallback for when it truely gives up the ghost though.) For those
who have Ipaqs, this should in theory be able to run under:

Which lets you read Newton Book packages using FireFox, it's a tad slow to do
the inital format, but after that you can read the books under Solaris etc
(the Newton Library website also has a whole heap of books.)

Saturday Oct 15, 2005

Well, I spent the weekend with a screwdriver swapping the now broken screen of my Newton with a screen from a spares Newton (picked up from ebay cheap as it has a dead motherboard.) My Newton lives again (yipeee!)

So, first nice discovery was that a package has been written to let Newton's print using the lpr protocol, ie see:

Tuesday Oct 05, 2004

You may have already seen from Slashdot, but apparently progress is being made on the Newton emulator, ie:
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/04/10/05/0023212.shtml?tid=180&tid=100&tid=190&tid=3
We may finally get new hardware (color screen at last ?) by emulating the old hardware on a new PDA.

Monday Jul 19, 2004

I recomend people take a look at Alan Coopersmith's log for some good information about how to configure wheelmouse support and to configure the X server so that it will exit on a keystroke (ah la Linux and cntrl alt backspace.) Allan's blog can be found at alanc

Also just wanted to note that I put a Solaris binary for the Newtonscript bytecode disassembler up on newton.webhop.org